The Siena Heights University indoor track and field teams competed last weekend at the Findlay Oiler Open.

Phoenix Duncan (Morenci High School) won the high jump, and Beth Heldmeyer was runner-up in the mile run for the Siena Heights women.

Duncan improved on her NAIA Championships automatic qualification with a leap of 5 feet, 6 inches (1.68 meters) — two centimeters better than her previous best of the season (1.66m).

Pole vaulter Lenzey Stidham also improved on an auto mark, taking fourth with a height of 11-7 3/4 (3.55m).

Thrower Taylor Byron added a provisional mark in the shot put, finishing ninth with a 41-10 3/4 (12.77m), and the Saints' 4x400-meter relay squad recorded an automatic-qualifying time of 4:01.52 while taking fifth place.

Members of the 4x400 were Brittney Benschoter (Madison High School), Arika Knannlein, Cassie Keeping and Jalesia Johnson.

Heldmeyer clocked in at 5:37.82 in the mile for her second-place effort, while teammate Melanie Glinski (Sand Creek) was sixth in 5:50.66.

Keeping took fourth in the 60 hurdles with a final time of 9.12 seconds.

Johnson and Benschoter placed sixth and seventh, respectively, in the 400. Johnson crossed the line in 1:00.64, while Benschoter hit the tape in 1:01.16.

Jalyn Lathan was eighth in the 300 with a 45.94, Chara Sykes took eighth in the high jump with a 4-10 1/4 (1.48m) and Elaine Johnson cleared 10-2 (3.10m) for 10th place in the pole vault.

On the men's side, Richard DePalma won the pole vault with an NAIA Championships automatic-qualifying mark, while Doug Dawson ran to a provisional mark in the 400-meter run.

DePalma cleared 16 feet, 3/4 inches (4.90 meters) to lead five Saints in the top six of the vault standings.

Jonathan Clore took second with a 15-1 (4.60m), Matt Leaders and Chris Whiting were fourth and fifth with marks of 14-1 1/4 (4.30m), and Benjamin Herrington placed sixth with a 13-7 1/4 (4.15m).

Dawson was runner-up with his time of 49.38 in the 400.

Zakary Haines added a second-place performance with a time of 36.33 in the 300.

Justin Bateson (Blissfield) took third in the 3,000, clocking in at 9:00.42, while Elroy Daffin Jr. came in third in the high jump with clearance of 6 feet, 4 inches (1.93m).

Heptathletes Travis Derscheid and Chris Schurr finished out their multi-stage event in third and fifth place, respectively.

Derscheid accumulated 4,501 points and finished out the competition with a fourth-place spot in the pole vault at 13-7 1/4 (4.15m). Schurr had 4,448 points and was the top vaulter with a height of 14-11 (4.55m).

Zach Widner placed fourth in the mile run, clocking in at 4:36.57.

Matt Robinet added a fourth-place finish in the 600 with a 1:25.26 and Josh Stump took 10th with a 1:26.98.

Terrell McGee finished fourth in the 800 with a 2:02.77,while teammate Mark Haukereid placed ninth with a 2:07.26.

Page 2 of 2 - Daffin added fifth place in the triple jump, stretching 43-8 1/2 (13.32m). Juarrezz Smith also competed and took eighth with a 40-2 1/4 (12.25m).

Gauge Aebersold (Onsted) finished 10th in the shot put with a distance of 48-6 3/4 (14.80m).